Adapter for Lawson: Overview
The Adapter for Lawson works behind the scenes to control
end users' access to the data in the Lawson system. When a user
makes a request against a Lawson table, the Adapter for Lawson asks
the following questions:
- Is this a Lawson File?
- Is this a Lawson User?
- Does the user have access to this table?
Once these questions have been answered, the Adapter for Lawson
does the following:
- Dynamically generates DBA for any Application Security System
Code, Record Level security, File Security, and Field Security.
For more information on DBA, see the Describing Data manual.
- Generates WHERE clauses for any Lawson Company and Process Level,
Record Security, and Field Security restrictions. These WHERE clauses
are appended to any requests for data made to the Lawson data.
In order for the Adapter for Lawson to work properly, you must complete the following steps:
- Verify that the server is installed.
- Configure the Adapter for Lawson.
- On the machine where Lawson is running, extract the Lawson security
information into flat files using the lawsdmp.sh utility.
- Copy or FTP the Lawson security information flat files to the
server.
- Refresh the security extracts to change the flat files into
a format the server can understand.
- Configure the data adapter and create the synonyms for the tables
you plan to report from.